If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.

Everything tries to be round.

The power of the world always works in circles.

Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.

To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.

It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death. He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.